"Just goes to show what one motivated Marine and his rifle can do."
Posted on 05/25/2007 8:19:11 AM PDT by Redcitizen
If anything is changed such as using a different bin or batch of propellant, projectiles, cases or primers to make the same exact type of end product then this will be a different Lot.
He’s dead. It’s over. And, honest to God, I don’t care anymore.
I’ve been to Dallas. I have stood by the window that Oswald supposedly used. If he hung out the window two feet, maybe...he might have been able to get two shots off.
I truly believe that you could make that shot.
However, Oswald was a less than stellar shot while in the Marines. The rifle in question was not sighted properly. And lastly, it would have been hard to get off that many high-accuracy shots with that rifle in that short of time.
I’m inclined to go with the multiple shooter scenario. I just don’t see Oswald as being one of the shooters.
Mossad has been implicated since JFK was bound and determined to shut down Israel’s Damona breeder reactor for Israel’s nuclear weapon’s program.
Oswald was a good shot with a bad rifle... but the sheeple will believe anything except the simple, boring truth.
It was really Mr Plumb with the candlestick in the dining room.
“Just remember it was Arlen Specter who was the Single Bullet perky cheerleader.”
He actually dreamed all of that up. I wouldn’t believe Arlen Specter if my life depended on it. Why people would believe him back then just boggles the imagination.
Oswald just could have been flat out ‘lucky’. People don’t like to accept the fact that an amateur could succeed in killing an important person — it goes against our intuition.
They used to say “Soldiers are killed by random fire, but Generals are killed by snipers.”
Gary Mack is an idiot. The whole idea is to re-test the "actual fragments" [which are in gov't vaults] using the study's new procedures.
Yes, that’s true. We can’t rule out that Oswald may have had a lucky day.
That leads to a second question.
Did Oswald act alone? Or was there a second (and maybe a third) shooter in Dealy Plaza that day?
If it was one, two or three or 45, the shooter(s) made their point and underscored it with Bobby. Why do you think Ted has turned out the way he is. They simply fired a shot across his bow with Chappaquiddick, and Ted came apart like a three dollar watch. I still think that family has made unforgiving, everlasting enemies.
How would a weak reed like Oswald have sure knowledge of the route and timing President Kennedy’s motorcade would take? How could Oswald be so sure of his info that he took a rifle to work on th it day.
How could Oswald be confident that no one would see him as he stacked boxes for a rifle rest, raised the window and settled down for a shot when the motorcade came by?
Oswald’s intelligence was amazingly good for a loner. I wonder.
"Just goes to show what one motivated Marine and his rifle can do."
Oswald was a bad shot with a good rifle in the Marine Corps.
Being a PMI in the Corps, I can tell you from a professional point of view that he could not have made the shots the Warren Commission claims he made. He couldn’t have made them with the M14, much less the POS he was alleged to have used.
The warren commission is 27 volumes of fairy tales.
Expert #1: Bullets have a unique chemical composition.
Expert #2: No they don't, bullets from the same box or batch might match.
If there were more than one shooter they should at least get credit for sharing bullets and being thrifty. Few, if any, of the conspiracy theories claim their "second shooter" used a Carcano. None are claimed to have fired from anywhere else but the Book Depository with a Carcano. No bullet fragments have been recovered that have been proven to be from any weapon but a Carcano. The worst a study like this could prove is that analysis of the metal content of fired bullets is less useful than previously thought.
We presented results from a study where ten bullets from each of three boxes of Mannlicher-Carcano bullets were analyzed for chemical composition. Compositional data from the ten bullets sampled from each box were compared to Dr. Guinn's testimony before the House Select Committee on Assassinations regarding assassination bullet fragment compositions and also to the findings of the NRC in their report "Weighing Bullet Lead Evidence" . We found that many bullets within a box of Mannlicher-Carcano bullets have similar composition. Further, we found that one of the thirty bullets analyzed in our study also compositionally matched one of the fragments from the assassination analyzed by Dr. Guinn . If we allow for the bias associated with Dr. Guinn's measurements, it is possible that there would be even more matches among our bullets with the JFK fragments. We have shown that two-element chance matches to assassination fragments are not extraordinarily rare. Further, we have shown that if bullets come from the same box, they are even less rare. Given the significance and impact of the JFK assassination, it is scientifically desirable for the evidentiary fragments to be reanalyzed. The reanalysis should include at least the seven elements identified in the NRC report, should establish the scientific basis for matching fragments originating from a single bullet, and should address the critically important issues of bullet and source heterogeneity.
I've got Bugliosi's book in the lineup.
That’s an interesting question. Could Oswald have been a “Cut-Out”, ie. the guy they wanted us to catch? If he was, he wouldn’t have had any useful information to give the authorities, had Jack Ruby not shot him that is.
I am personally satisfied that the physical evidence supports a single shooter. Others are equally convinced that there was a second.
The whole “Who Shot JFK” thing is a forerunner of the Global Warming debate. Those really interested in the question — or many of them — chose the facts that fit there favorite conclusion. I’ve read that “Oswald was a good marksman” almost as many times as I’ve heard that “Oswald was a lousy shot.” It seems to me that he can’t be both.
Why didnt Oliver Stone think of this, or did he and just not tell us???
I shoot a great deal and have become rather good at it. That would have not been an easy shot for just one man at a moving target with a bolt action Italian rifle. Two accurately placed shots out of three shots from a bolt action rifle of dubious quality at a moving target. That would be very good shooting. Also add the stress of the situation to the shooter and the adrenalin would be pumping and your shooting abilities degrade.
One other question has always bothered me. Why would an ex marine choose that bolt action rifle instead of an M1 Garand Model D. That was the sniper version of the Garand and had a scope on it. It would have been a far superior weapon and a weapon that Oswald was familiar with. There is no doubt that Oswald was a shooter. I just do not think he was alone.
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